New Year's Resolutions Quotes

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb

New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Brad Paisley

Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Jonathan Edwards

Happy, God, New Year

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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, New Year, Holiday

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Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

New Year, Regret, Moving

"A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, New Year

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press

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Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

Jay Leno

Funny, New Year, Mean

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May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Aleister Crowley

New Year, Courage, Fall

Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Neil Gaiman

New Year, Mistake, Years

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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Charles Lamb

New Year, Holiday, Years

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Leonard Bernstein

Funny, New Year, Years

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Hal Borland

Love, Funny, Life

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Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

Dave Beard

Inspirational, New Year, Years

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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

John Selden

New Year, Resolution, Happy New Year

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Let each new year find you a better person.

Benjamin Franklin

New Year, Years, Old Year

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Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happy, New Year, Years

In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

John Greenleaf Whittier

New Year, Holiday, Today

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Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

Michael Josephson

New Year, Opportunity, Years

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The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

Hartley Coleridge

New Year, Years, Old Year

Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

Neil Gaiman

Change, Wisdom, New Year

"My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

W. H. Auden

Funny, New Year, Holiday

"Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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